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undamned said:
My estimates:

$75 Super Puzzle Fighter X - Green
$200? Battle Circuit - Grey
$50 Vampire Hunter - Green
$75 Cyberbots - Green
$75 19XX - Green
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Honestly you could double these prices and no one would complain... would still be significantly cheaper than fleaBay.
 
The thing to keep in mind here is not to go by prices from one site but to go by multiple sites to get a "standard" price. You can search websites till your blue in the face looking for the cheapest price on cps2 boards and find some guy in Timbuktu selling them for 10 bucks a pop, but I don't think that equates to making that the standard price for the boards. I do wonder if people are taking shipping into consideration also. If I buy a board from overseas for let's say $75.00 is that shipped to my house or am I paying another $45.00 to ship? I'm sure domestic rates would be half that for sure but here $75.00 would also be a steal for a cps2 board itself online. There are a lot of factors for people to consider before settling on a average price for cps2. Battery,Phoenix, clean Roms, conversions, regions,etc...
 
undamned said:
My estimates:

$75 Super Puzzle Fighter X - Green
$200? Battle Circuit - Grey
$50 Vampire Hunter - Green
$75 Cyberbots - Green
$75 19XX - Green

Prices on Green boards are based on sourcing them from Yahoo Japan Auctions, not shops or ebay auctions. The Grey Battle Circuit is sort of a crap-shoot because it's a rare title, regardless or region. Today's market is super crazy. On a given day, one of those on ebay might fetch 2x the "normal" price. I wish I would have fleshed out my CPS2 stuff back when I first got into arcade collecting. I remember $20 CPS2 games on ebay. $100 would have seemed "crazy." Since then I've pretty much given up on getting games in a particular color (or condition, for that matter, lol) and just focused on getting titles I'm missing. I've actually kept a spreadsheet of sources, prices paid, condition, etc. and when I'm done with the collection I'll do a nice writeup of my experiences piecing together a complete CPS2 collection.

I don't know if I have any dupes of the titles you listed (possibly a Cyberbots?), but I've got a bunch of extras I should probably get rid of to clear out my already crowded office. I'll try to get to that later this summer. I'll post here before ebay or anywhere else.
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Pretty rare to find any CPS2 board for under $100 bucks nowadays. :( Yes, on YAJ they often sell for less, but with proxy buying fees and shipping, that price quickly escalates. CPS2 and PCB prices in general are crazy.
 
Supply vs demand - there was only a certain number of PCBs ever made, then take away the broken boards, those destroyed by operators because they no longer earned on site or they suicided etc. and those boards still on site.

Then add all the new people coming into the hobby every day who might start with a 60 in 1 or a Pandora but now want the real deal that they played as a kid.

Then there's the arcade renaissance happening at the moment which is a great thing and introduces more people to the hobby

There are those who keep referring to the current price rises as a bubble like the housing market but unlike the housing market, there aren't more 20+ year old PCBs being produced.
 
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Also, if you are willing to get your hands dirty, you can take a chance on "untested" or "not-working" games. Of course that requires a bit of know-how (EPROM checking/reprogramming, trace repair, etc.), but if you are serious about building a CPS2 collection without breaking the bank, that's pretty much the only way to do it. And the nice thing about that approach is that even on ebay you can still find junk lots for cheap. In fact, I just scored 2 junk A+B sets for $100 shipped. Occasionally you get something unrepairable, but I've found that to be the exception and not the rule.
-ud
 
undamned said:
Also, if you are willing to get your hands dirty, you can take a chance on "untested" or "not-working" games. Of course that requires a bit of know-how (EPROM checking/reprogramming, trace repair, etc.), but if you are serious about building a CPS2 collection without breaking the bank, that's pretty much the only way to do it. And the nice thing about that approach is that even on ebay you can still find junk lots for cheap. In fact, I just scored 2 junk A+B sets for $100 shipped. Occasionally you get something unrepairable, but I've found that to be the exception and not the rule.
-ud
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Tried it, got a battery damaged board. If you see brown stains on it; it probably leaked.
 
undamned said:
Also, if you are willing to get your hands dirty, you can take a chance on "untested" or "not-working" games. Of course that requires a bit of know-how (EPROM checking/reprogramming, trace repair, etc.), but if you are serious about building a CPS2 collection without breaking the bank, that's pretty much the only way to do it. And the nice thing about that approach is that even on ebay you can still find junk lots for cheap. In fact, I just scored 2 junk A+B sets for $100 shipped. Occasionally you get something unrepairable, but I've found that to be the exception and not the rule.
-ud
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Yeah, that's cool but then if you replace the EPROMS you've now created a conversion board. Which isn't worth the same as an original. But if you want a cheaper price that's the way to go. Plus with the phoenix roms you can change the region on those green boards.

Also here's my guestimate for these games:

$150 Super Puzzle Fighter X - Green
$250 Battle Circuit - Grey
$125-150 Vampire Hunter - Green
$200 Cyberbots - Green
$175 19XX - Green
 
Lions3, fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your perspective, that looks pretty spot on. Tough right now for anyone getting into CPS2 collecting. Looked through YAJ and it looks like CPS2 prices are going the Ebay route there as well.
 
Any thoughts on the following CPS2 games?

- Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha - Orange A/B board combo - damaged label but otherwise decent shape.
- Marvel Super Heroes vs SF - Green B board only, gamer condition - missing chip in shell on one side.
- X-Men vs Street Fighter - Orange A/B combo - b board is in green shell - volume up button broken on A board.

All are phoenixed with Avalaunch ROMs.

Also Puzzle Bobble 2X (with box) and Puzzle Bobble 3 for Taito F3 (No mobo / JP region) both in great shape?
 
$100-150 for A/B combos, $75-90 B board only

F3 I have no idea, maybe $50-60 for PB3 by itself? PB2X CiB would be worth a bit more, I heard there's a multi available now you could install on that F3 motherboard instead *wink*

Or is PB2X not an F3 title
 
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